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Greg Drasler lives and works in New York City. His paintings have been the subject of eighteen one-person exhibitions and included in over thirty group shows. He was born and raised in Waukegan, Illinois, and moved to New York in 1983 after receiving an MFA from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.The first exhibition of his paintings was in the first On View, at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in 1983, followed by Other Man: Alternative Views of Masculinity in 1987, both curated by Marcia Tucker. Metaphorical depictions of construction sites and workers evolved in his work as accumulations of tools and objects populated his paintings that addressed the constructions of identity. Crowds of men in hats along with the Baggage Paintings contained humor, nostalgia, and memory in ongoing assemblies of selves. Drasler began describing his painting process as packing and re-packing an empty suitcase or painting the inside out. Drasler is the recipient of a New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship, a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Pollack/Krasner Grant among others. His most recent exhibition, Crowded Places I Open Spaces, ran through March 2021 at the Betty Cuningham Gallery in New York City. |
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